Jerry Pournelle , science fiction author, 84. Jerry posted on his blog last week that he had come down with the flu. His son, Alex, says he did not suffer: https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/passings/ I doubt the world of science fiction will ever see a better pair of collaborators than Larr...

My home is in central Texas. San Antonio, to be precise. We're a cosmopolitan place; I have friends, acquaintances, and co-workers from around the globe who now reside here. More than half of the population, however, is Hispanic or latino (myself included, on my mother's side), which means the predo...

Happy Burfday, DB! Well, happy yesterday anyway! Ditto! I was going to get you this but wasn't sure if you already had a copy: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51rNRBc0gYL._SX384_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg This is an atlas of fractures, as demonstrated by x-ray images (radiographs and computed tomog...